At the height of the Red Scare, Margaret Chase Smith was willing to pay the price of taking on Joseph McCarthy.

The sense of fear was wildly inequitable ... It would be a mirror image of the way that McCarthy-era repression set the stage for a raft of Supreme Court cases that dramatically strengthened legal ...

EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — While everyone else in the NFL 's record crop of first-round quarterbacks in the draft last year launched their careers on the field, J.J. McCarthy was forced to begin his ...